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Celtic Connections is one of the leading annual festivals of world, folk and roots music and sees more than 2,000 musicians from across the globe take part in 300 events at 20 Glasgow venues over 18 days.

In 2018 Irish bands will perform at the leading music industry event taking place during the festival, Showcase Scotland, providing opportunities for these musicians to gain exposure in front of attending promoters, festival directors and record label representatives.

Details of the Irish music stars selected to perform in 2018 will be announced as part of the Celtic Connections programme announcement in autumn 2017.

The new partnership builds on the richest of traditions, which has seen an incredible range of Irish musicians take to the Celtic Connections stages since the festival started in 1994.

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This year’s festival, which runs until Sunday 5 February, is packed with Irish musicians including Altan, Dervish, Beoga, Damien Dempsey, The Bonnymen and Four Men and a Dog.

Donald Shaw, Artistic Director of Celtic Connections, said: “An international partnership between Celtic Connections and Ireland feels like the most natural thing in the world, like friends coming together to make and enjoy music. There’s such a clear affinity.

”This partnership, which is being realised with Culture Ireland, is also an exhilarating prospect. It creates exciting new opportunities to bring leading Irish musicians and bands to Celtic Connections 2018; opportunities to celebrate shared traditions and ambitions, and to discover new facets to a musical relationship that has grown over almost a quarter of a century.”